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The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
I recommend doing so, even as a backup.
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
CTRL+A, CTRL+C from web or desktop puts a newline separated plain text list of songs on your clipboard.
Main risk is that the list is in the format of "https[:]//open[.]spotify[.]com/track/[song-id]", so Spotify may break the lookup of these IDs in the future.
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
Fortunately, there is a way to extract song lists - via API, official export, or even MCP. https://github.com/marcelmarais/spotify-mcp-server I recommend doing so, even as a backup.
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
It is relatively easy (currently) to take a playlist and back it up as a plain text file. CTRL+A, CTRL+C from web or desktop puts a newline separated plain text list of songs on your clipboard. Main risk is that the list is in the format of "https[:]//open[.]spotify[.]com/track/[song-id]", so Spotify may break the lookup of these IDs in the future.
Luckily, Spotify seems pretty good at backwards compatibility. `spotify:user:$username` still seems to work in the search-bar, must have worked for almost 20 years now, and given that artists themselves use those track URIs and IDs, I'm sure Spotify will be even more careful with those than search query syntax.
Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
It's not as seamless to jump in and listen to stuff on lastfm though.
I enjoy looking back at what I had been listening to in previous years as well. But playlists in Spotify have a "Date added" column, so you get a chronology from there. I guess splitting them out into years means you can shuffle a single year. Apart from that it seems to just complicate the process. My "Starred" playlist has the first song added in 2010. When Spotify decided "Like" was now going to be how to favourit…
I wonder if they provide this data if you do a "download your information" request. I remember some discussion about how much info that archive had:
I enjoy looking back at what I had been listening to in previous years as well. But playlists in Spotify have a "Date added" column, so you get a chronology from there. I guess splitting them out into years means you can shuffle a single year. Apart from that it seems to just complicate the process. My "Starred" playlist has the first song added in 2010. When Spotify decided "Like" was now going to be how to favourit…